fitting campag to shimano...

johnny b

Hi - new poster here so apologies if this has already been asked a guzillion times....

I'm building a bike from scratch for the first time (Dolan Volare frame base)... I have some unused Shimano WHR550 wheels which have a shimano/sram freehub; I also have a more or less complete groupset of campag veloce/chorus kit I've steadily stripped off from my sunday bike as i've upgraded it...

so the $1m question - is it possible to get a campag freehub to mate with a shimano wheel?

any advice most welcome as this building bikes malarkey is a whole new world for me )

Thanks

daveornee

http://www.wheelsmfg.com/products.p...rod=shiftconv10

Wheels Manufacturing makes a conversion cassette.

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Peter@vecchios

Unfortunately, no way to convert those wheels to Campagnolo freehub(altho you CAN convert a Campag wheel/hub to shimano-editorial).

YOU can, however, use a shimano 9s cogset and chain which will shift either a Campagnolo 9s or 10s quite well. Differences in cog ctr-ctr is close enough that it will work. You can also get a Wheels manufacturing cogset, with shimano splines, that is Campagnolo 9 or 10s spacing-pricey tho.

michaeltop

as reported by velonews in the zinn column, you can use a cheap rival or force deraileur with your campy shifters, which allows u to use the shimano cassette

cwdzoot

The quickest least costly option is to use a shimano cassette that has lose cogs and replace 2 of the spacers toward the bottom with slightly wider shimano 9 speed spacers. it's not perfect but works well enough for what you described.
Camy 10 speed cassette is 2mm wider than shimano 10 speed = .2mm per cog.

Another good option is the american classic concersion, works 100% and not bad price :

http://www.glorycycles.com/10speedcamca.html

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